UnitedHealth Group shareholders are renewing pressure on the company in an amended complaint, filed Aug. 7 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. An initial complaint from July 2024 focused on concerns over the “firewall” between UnitedHealthcare…
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Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in connection with the December 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the New York Times reported. “I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan,” Mr. Mangione told…
Alabama police confirmed an officer-involved shooting on the campus of UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham Aug. 13 that left one man dead. The incident occurred around 12:35 p.m. when an officer with the Birmingham Police Department attempted to detain a suspect…
A federal judge has dismissed a proposed antitrust class action accusing a group of hospitals and health systems, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and a residency matching organization of conspiring to suppress pharmacy residents’ pay, according to an Aug.…
PatientRightsAdvocate.org sued the American Medical Association on Aug. 13, seeking to void the AMA’s copyright over the CPT code set so the patient advocacy group can republish the codes online for free, according to court documents reviewed by Becker’s. The…
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A federal judge has dismissed the Justice Department’s discrimination case against Harvard University that alleged the institution failed to protect students from harassment on campus. The Justice Department sued Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard in March, seeking to force repayment of federal…
A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers introduced legislation Aug. 6 that would bar hospitals and other Medicare-participating facilities from forcing nurses to work mandatory overtime, backed by civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation. The Nurse Overtime and Patient…
A federal appeals court has ruled that the government’s methodology for calculating the qualifying payment amount within the No Surprises Act’s arbitration process is partly unlawful, a decision that could force insurers to recalculate QPAs and raise some benchmark payments.…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Aug. 10 overhauling the federal childhood vaccine schedule, calling for the MMR vaccine to be split into three separate shots and narrowing the list of immunizations recommended for children. The order drew swift…
A new CMS final rule will prevent federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funding from going toward gender-affirming care for youths. The rule, which Becker’s reviewed Aug. 11, will go into effect Oct. 13. It blocks states from using Medicaid…